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The Sony Ericsson W760i is Feature-rich Phone Packed in a Small Package

Despite owning and using a Sony Ericsson phones for several years (which stopped last year when I got my iPhone), I never had a Sony Ericsson slider phone ever. So I was a bit hesitant whether to get the Sony Ericsson W760i as a back up phone for my calling and my texting chores since doing so on the iPhone is practically futile. What convinced me to get the W760i was its small form factor, solid features, and of course its classic elegant look. Here’s our full review of the Sony Ericsson W760i.

Key Features:

• 3.2 Megapixel Camera (with digital zoom, geo-tagging, photo feeds, photo fix, picture blogging, video blogging, video recording)
• PlayNow arena for instant access to music, games, and other stuff
• Wayfinder Navigator for staying on track with turn-by-turn navigation, instruction, unlimited access to online travel planning tools and downloadable maps
• Walkman phone
• Playlist
• SenseMe creates playlists based on tempo and mood
• Music recognition returns song name, artists and album of a particular track you’ve entered
• Tracker for measuring the distance covered and energey expended
• Intense gaming
• Shake control for shuffling the music on your Walkman folder
• Mobile blogging functionality

Features:

There’s no doubt that the Sony Ericsson W760i is a feature-rich phone. Interestingly, being the first Sony Ericsson walkman phone I owned, I noticed some nifty features of the W760i which were not in my previous SE phone, the P990i. The W760i features an accelerometer functionality similar to the iPhone. You can change the orientation of the screen from portrait to landscape just by tilting the phone. You can also use the tilting functionality in some of the games preloaded in the phone, that is Need for Speed Pro Street 3D.

The Sony Ericsson W760i also features GPS navigation, Google Maps, and WayFinder Navigator. These functonality help you out in getting around unfamiliar locations. The phone also features a 3-megapixel camera that supports both photo and video. A nice minor feature of the phone is the functionality to edit the photos you’ve taken for an enhanced and better look.

Sony Ericsson W760i Performance

The W7601 allows you to drag and drop files from your phone to your PC or vice versa. The phone offers attractive and and slick menu which are almost flawless.

The W760i also features a nice call quality. It provides 9 hours of continous calls and 400 hours of standby time. The camera produces decent quality photo even if it is only a 3.2MP camera. The phone’s built-in browsers work fine although if you are an Opera Mini fan like me, you’d wish that the phone’s defaulty browser is Opera. The W760i also works great on a mobile network. Sorry folks, but the W760i doesn’t have Wi-Fi connectivity features. It would have been better if Sony Ericsson has included this feature.

Design

Like I said, one of the reasons why I got the Sony Ericsson W760 is because of its classic and elegant design. With a small form factor, this phone is lightweight and yet doesn’t feel like plastic. The W760i is available in black and red design. And both emits an aura of professionalism and business-like. The phone’s keypad is amazingly big for a small phone such as this. Hence, texting is a breeze. The 4-way navigational dial looks cool and is not your ordinary looking jog dial. The phone features a dedicated key for activating the phone’s Walkman features. It doesn’t require you to slide out the keypad to access the Walkman menu. The phone’s memory stick micro is located on top of the phone, so can easily change the memory card if in case you’re using two or more of those tiny storage cards. Overall, W760’s design is elegant enough that you would want to display it to your friends everytime.

woohoo! im blogging using my new phone as my modem via bluetooth! i’ve been trying this out for days and i couldnt figure it out. i’ve read forums, websites* etc on how to do it and have consistently failed.  but today the not so reliable wifi here at the podium is down, so i decided to give it a shot one more time. but this time i decided to let it connect automatically ( i used to do this manually, the long way). i find it funny because it was this simple!!! i love how apple makes things so simple for me. i hate doin this techy stuff  lol!

P10/30mins for this service.. not bad eh? beats the P100/hr they charge for those prepaid wireless they sell here in malls.

*no links on where ive read the “how-to’s” (too lazy to find em) but just google it!

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last week i was given by this company, w/c i cannot say, a mobile phone (Sony Ericsson W760i) plus a year supply of prepaid load for reasons i cannot disclose. i wanted the black one but who’s complainin’ its freakin free!!!  i’ve never gotten freebies for what i do so its somewhat a big deal to me.

the first day i got the phone i hated it, i wanted to give it back.. i’ve never been a sony ericsson user. but after a few days playing w/ it, i started loving it.. the build quality, the little design details, the sound quality, the features (click on link above). its flippin’ (or should i say slidin’?) amazing!

THANKS to the company who gave me the phone..( i’m considering switching my mobile carrier next year )

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here’s an article about the shoes: good news pilipinas

my uncle brought the shoes from our family lunch last sunday.  accel is one of his clients and often receives free stuff from the company. its pretty cool he’s got a pair but i wouldnt wear em.. the shoes looked ok but the printing of barrack’s face looks like it was printed on an ink jet printer lol!

taken w/ my mobile phone

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Fuh.

I just came back from Sony Spare Parts and Sony Service Center in Northpoint, Midvalley and I was too excited to post this up! I collected my despaired Walkman, NW-S705F for repair and,

After 6 months, finally, I get to replace my earphone with a new one! MDR-NC022A. That is the revised version of MDR-NC022, my previous earphone. That’s a NOISE CANCELLING earphone, which can cancel the ambience and hence, the sound is so superb. You gotta try it by yourself.

If you can see in picture above, just above the WALKMAN logo, there are some dots, that’s the microphone which sends the ambience audio signal to the player and the player will send back the cancelling signal thus, you’ll be peacefully hearing your songs.

I really love this Walkman but since I got my iPod nano, I left it aside and no longer attended because to maintain two players at the same time isn’t easy, plus, they’re using different softwares like the nano uses iTunes and my Walkman uses SonicStage.

I’m not a gadget freak because I’m not a FREAK. Hahah. But all these stuffs keep me going and without them, I feel kinda empty.

1. My Sony Ericsson phone (currently W760i, previously K800i, planning to get C702 or C905 )
2. My M&S Wallet of course (it’s easy to celebrate its anniversary since I bought it on 01.01.08 )
3. Supplementary Nokia 1100 which I use for UOX.
4. My 4GB iPod nano.
5. My 2GB Walkman NW-S705F
6. Himalaya’s Lip Balm (is it a gadget )
7. Scientific calculator is also a gadget? Haha.

And for now, i’m HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY!

x

Hello.

Sorry sorry sorry for no update after quite a long time.

I was busy indeed and no mood. Hit by two roads, and emotion distortion.

Haha.

So, with pictures SLUTTIER than ever, with W760i, without autofocus, the pictures go blurrer than ever.

Okay, that’s Etie, waiting in front of the Account department for her account to be cleared so she can get the result for her final examination. That was the last time my presence at MSU and I was pinched and pinched and pinched by Syahirah and Etie to make a good choice pursuing at MSU for the same course.

But the next day, I made up my mind, I went to MSU to pass my withdrawal form.

And, a few classmates declared COLD WAR with me. haha. They boycotted me just because I left MSU after my first semester there.

I went to Taman Tasik Shah Alam yesterday with my boyfriends, Zul and Fazri after quite a long time not meeting them. Kinda miss them, seriously but I wasn’t in mood to talk more. Haha. I don’t know why and Fazri can’t stop asking me what’s wrong and what’s wrong and what’s wrong with me.

But I managed to draw a smile upon my face. haha. that’s cool.

Unfortunately, Fazri lost his expensive Oakley sunshade there at Tasik. What an unfortunate. I know it’s not cheap and at first, he thought that I’m playing hide-and-seek with him but truly, I’m not!

And, a serious traffic jam at Glenmarie – Batu Tiga interchange. I really2 hate it!

But to fetch my friend, Zul, home, ah, I had to. (Haha. Do I sound like I’m ikhlas? And I look like, err… I dont know!)

And today, I was so excited to attend Faizal’s girlfriend, Sellina’s convocation at Dewan Sri Budiman at UiTM Shah Alam! But before that, I fetch those peep, Azerol, Alwi and him, Faizal of course at Kerinchi and went to Pyramid to buy some stuff and a convocation present.

Oh ya, Shida was there. They’re my deary friends from UiTM Sarawak and Faizal, from UiTM Sabah, flew down to KL just for the convocation!

This one captured by Alwi. Not interesting. Haha.

This one captured by me. Of course photogenic.

Didnt know what to buy so I bought her a dozen of J Co donuts. As I never give anyone a convocation present before and I hate flowers and bears at convocations, I hope she like it.

After the convocation, the UiTM went crazy and jammed at entrances so, we camwhored in car. I tell you, that Sellina is pure genius, she’s a ANC (Anugerah Naib Canselor or Vice Chancellor Award in English). Ah, pandainya!

As I’ma HOME FULL TIMER now, I will try to update this blog as fast as I can. Just don’t want to keep it boring.

Shalom, ya.

x

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Almost three years ago we reviewed our first Sony Ericsson Walkman phone, the W600i. Since then, we’ve seen quite a few models pass through our hands. For the most part we’ve approved of the Walkman series, even if there was the occasional dud. Designs are typically easy to use, features are plentiful, and performance is satisfactory. Fortunately, the latest Walkman handset, the W760i, didn’t let us down in the slightest. It first captured our eye at CES 2008 where it was a finalist in the cell phones category for CNET’s Best of CES. At the time, we admired its slick design and its laden feature set, which includes a motion sensor, an accelerometer, and support for three UMTS/HSDPA bands. And now, seven months later, we can report that this super world phone offers so much to like that it earned our Editors’ Choice Award. It’s not offered by a U.S. carrier at the time of this writing, but you can get it unlocked for about $300.

Design
The W760i features a classic Sony Ericsson slider design that’s sure to catch a few eyes on the street. The curved edges and clean lines make for a very attractive phone with some unique style touches. In particular, we liked the textured material on the bottom end of the phone and the shiny metal skin below the camera lens. Three color versions are available: fancy black, rocky silver and intense red. The black model, which we reviewed, features a bright yellow stripe across the battery cover. Though it gives the W760i a faint bumblebee impression, we approved of its overall look.

At 4.1 inches tall by 1.9 inches wide by 0.6 inch deep, and weighing 3.5 ounces, the W760i is compact and lightweight yet still has a comfortable solid feel in the hand. The slider mechanism is sturdy; you can open and close the phone with one hand, and it clicks firmly into place on either end. The 2.25-inch display is nothing short of excellent. With support for 262,144 hues, it is bright and vibrant with an intense color resolution. Everything looks great, from the easy to use menus to the graphics and photos. You can adjust the brightness and choose from a selection of menu styles.

In the past, Sony Ericsson has stumbled when designing navigation controls. Usually this has happened when the company’s product design team tried to be too creative. But with the W760i we were glad to see that Sony Ericsson kept things simple. The four-way toggle and surrounding buttons are spacious and tactile and we rarely had a problem navigating through menus and selecting options. The four-way toggle and central OK button double as music player shortcuts, and you can set the toggle to give one-touch access to an additional four user-defined functions. Though we’d prefer dedicated music controls, such an arrangement is common on other Walkman phones.

The two soft keys have tactile ridges, and we were glad to see Sony Ericsson break from another tradition by providing dedicated Talk and End/power buttons. Both controls are intuitive and, in an unexpected touch, they’re surrounded by small speakers for the music player. Our only complaint with the W760i’s controls is that the Clear key and the secondary shortcut button are a bit crowded and they lack any definition. On a couple of occasions we mistakenly hit the End key when we meant to press the Clear button.

As is the case with most slider phones, the W760i’s keypad buttons are hidden by the sliding face. Of course, that also means that they’re completely flush, but they make up for it by being relatively large. When texting or dialing we didn’t have any misdials. What’s more, the backlighting is bright, and the numbers on the keys are big. On the downside, we weren’t crazy about the plastic feeling of the keys. It made us wonder about their long-term durability and whether they could crack over time, as we found on the Sony Ericsson W580i.

Rounding out the exterior of the W760i are a thin volume rocker on the right spine and a Walkman player shortcut on the left spine. The charger port sits just above the Walkman control, while the Memory Stick Micro slot rests in a handy location on the top of the phone. The camera lens sits on the rear face of the front slider, so you must have the phone open to snap pictures. There’s no lens or self-portrait mirror; we expect both on a 3.2-megapixel shooter.

Features
The W760i has a 1,000-contact phone book with room in each entry for five phone numbers, an e-mail, Web address, job title, company name, work address, birthday, and notes. You can save contacts to groups, and pair them with a photo and one of 42 polyphonic and MP3 ringtones for caller ID. That is quite a decent selection of tones and you also can choose a video ringtone for callers. Other essentials include a vibrate mode, a voice memo recorder, text and multimedia messaging, an alarm clock, a calendar, a task list, a notepad, a timer, a speakerphone (usable after you make a call), a stopwatch, and a calculator.

But the W760i doesn’t stop there. You’ll also find full Bluetooth (including a stereo profile and a Bluetooth remote), e-mail support, PC syncing, a file manager, USB mass storage, and a code memo for storing sensitive information. You’ll also find a selection of applications, ranging from functional to unusual. There’s a tip calculator, a unit converter, two world clocks and a Rock Bobblehead app where you can make a cartoon Elvis-like bobblehead dance by shaking the phone. As we said, some apps are useful and some…not so much. Music Mate 5 takes advantage of the W760i’s motion sensor, as well. When you’re not using the handset as a metronome, you can play a variety of percussion instruments by shaking the W760i in various directions.

Speaking of music, the W760i’s player offers the usual refinements you’d expect from a Walkman phone. Settings include an equalizer, playlists, stereo widening, and shuffle and loop modes. The interface is minimalist, but functional. The player supports album art as well, but it won’t recognize every song it plays. You also get an airplane mode for listening to your tunes with the phone transmitter off. Like the W580i, the W760i’s player is integrated with the “shake control” application. By holding down the Walkman button when music is playing you can advance to the next track by flicking your wrist. It works quite well and it’s an attractive feature.

Loading music on the phone is relatively easy. The needed USB cable and the Disc2Phone software are included, which means you’re saved the pain of shelling out more money for a music kit. The Sony Ericsson software can be a bit clunky, so we’re glad that you can also drag and drop music from your PC to the W760i. Internal memory is capped at a relatively low 40MB, so it’s advisable to use a Memory Stick Micro card. You also get the standard FM radio, as well as a Music ID application for identifying likable tunes you can’t name.

The W760i’s 3.2-megapixel camera shoots photos in four sizes and two quality settings. Other options include three color effects, a night mode, white balance and brightness adjustments, a digital zoom (usable only at the VGA resolution), 16 frames, and four shutter sounds, plus a silent option. There’s also a self-timer, a multishot mode, and an option for taking panoramic shots. The camcorder takes clips with sound and offers a set of editing options similar to the still camera. Clips meant for multimedia messages are capped at 20 seconds; otherwise you can shoot for as long as the memory permits. Photo quality was quite good. Colors were bright and objects had definition. Our only gripe is that smaller objects were a tad burry and oranges and reds had a lot of noise. And, as previously mentioned, we’d prefer to have a flash. The W760i comes with PhotoDJ and VideoDJ applications, and you can connect the phone directly to a photo printer and upload photos to a blog.

The W760i also comes with a fair set of GPS applications, including Google Maps, a navigation service, a tracking application, and geotagging for photos. We weren’t able to test them on our review phone, but they’re at your disposal.

You can personalize the W760i with a variety of themes, wallpaper, screensavers, and clock styles. As always, you can purchase more options and ringtones from Sony Ericsson via the WAP 2.0 wireless Web browser. Alternatively, the phone comes with a Music DJ application for composing your own ringtones. Gamers can enjoy seven Java (J2ME) titles, Asteroids, Extreme Air Snowboarding, Guitar Rock Tour, Need for Speed, Roller Coaster, Super Breakout and Rollercoaster Rush, with additional titles available for purchase.

Performance
We tested the quadband (GSM 850/900/1800/1900) Sony Ericsson W760i in San Francisco using AT&T service. We were very glad to see that the W760i is a full world phone, for maximum coverage both inside and outside North America. Call quality was quite good: voices were clear and the volume level was loud. There was a slight background hum during some calls but it sounded more like the GSM “buzz” that plagues so many phones using this technology. The only other issue was that we noticed some voices sounded slightly mechanical. It wasn’t a huge deal though, so it didn’t detract from our experience.

On their end, callers said we sounded fine. Most could tell we were using a cell phone, but that’s hardly unusual. A few people reported that the W760i picked up a fair amount of background noise. When were speaking in loud places, those callers said they had some trouble hearing us, but it was not a universal assessment.

Speakerphone calls were decent on the whole. We had plenty of volume, though the clarity was diminished on our end. Callers reported varying clarity as well, but most could hear us even we were speaking a few feet from the phone. Bluetooth headset calls were satisfactory, though it will vary from headset to headset.

Reception for voice calls remained strong throughout our testing period and we encountered no static or interference. On the other hand, the 3G connection was sporadic. We would have it for a few minutes and then we would lose it momentarily. When we had the connection, however, the 3G experience was fast. The broad support for three UMTS bands (850/900/2100), plus HSDPA, is one of the W760i’s better features. We love that we could access 3G networks around the world.

While cruising through the W760i’s menus, we noticed that the software was rather pokey at times. The phone tended to take a few seconds to respond when we pressed a button, usually when we were using the navigation toggle. It should be noted that our review model was not the final version, so it’s likely that Sony Ericsson will correct this problem before the final version is released.

Music quality was up to the usual Walkman phones’ standards. The aforementioned speakers are well positioned to deliver a satisfying audio experience. The clarity was. Also, we liked how you can tweak the audio using the editing controls. Of course, the phone will lack the range of a standalone MP3 player, but for most occasions it’s perfectly fine. And, as always, the best experience will be through headphones. You can minimize the player while using other phone functions, and the accelerometer will rotate the display’s orientation automatically when you turn the handset to a horizontal position.

The W760i has a promised battery life of nine hours for GSM talk time and four hours for 3G talk time. It has a tested talk time of 7 hours and 5 minutes. The promised standby times are 16.6 days for GSM and 14.6 days for 3G. The W760i has a digital SAR rating of 0.81 watt per kilogram.

The good: The Sony Ericsson W760i has an attractive, easy-to-use design with a well-stocked, music-friendly feature set. It also offers broad world phone support, an accelerometer, and reliable performance.

The bad: The Sony Ericsson W760i’s menus are the slightest bit sluggish, and some of its navigation controls were crowded. Also, it lacks a camera flash, and we’re concerned about the long-term durability of its keypad buttons.

The bottom line: The Sony Ericsson W760i is the best Sony Ericsson Walkman phone we’ve seen, by far. It corrects one of Sony Ericsson’s usual design pitfalls while offering a generous feature set and satisfying performance. We can suggest a few tweaks that should make it a winner.

Specs: Band / mode: WCDMA (UMTS) / GSM 850/900/1800/1900; Talk time: Up to 240 min; Combined with: With digital camera / digital player / FM radio / GPS receiver  See full specs >>